Principal–agent problem

Principal–agent problem - conflict of interest when one agent makes decisions on another's behalf. Article "Principal–agent problem" in English Wikipedia has 43.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 55 references and 25 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Principal–agent problem" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Principal–agent problem", its content was written by 212 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 677 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 202 times in English Wikipedia and cited 613 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8124 in April 2023
• Global: #9968 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #22042 in April 2015
• Global: #10448 in October 2013

There are 25 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Principal–agent problem		43.7035
2	Dutch (nl) Principaal-agenttheorie		38.3716
3	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		36.6264
4	Hebrew (he) בעיית הנציג		33.3943
5	Estonian (et) Esindamisprobleem		32.3174
6	Catalan (ca) Problema de relació principal-agent		30.2989
7	Ukrainian (uk) Проблема «принципал—агент»		28.9788
8	Korean (ko) 본인-대리인 문제		27.1309
9	Chinese (zh) 代理問題		24.5634
10	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		24.2079

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Principal–agent problem" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principal–agent problem		4 176 628
2	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		1 794 934
3	Japanese (ja) プリンシパル＝エージェント理論		409 075
4	Spanish (es) Problema del agente-principal		318 524
5	Chinese (zh) 代理問題		229 291
6	French (fr) Problème principal-agent		192 748
7	Dutch (nl) Principaal-agenttheorie		176 391
8	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		155 376
9	Polish (pl) Teoria agencji		130 971
10	Russian (ru) Теория принципала-агента		94 158

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Principal–agent problem" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principal–agent problem		8 915
2	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		1 822
3	Japanese (ja) プリンシパル＝エージェント理論		1 013
4	Chinese (zh) 代理問題		495
5	Russian (ru) Теория принципала-агента		404
6	French (fr) Problème principal-agent		342
7	Korean (ko) 본인-대리인 문제		257
8	Spanish (es) Problema del agente-principal		253
9	Polish (pl) Teoria agencji		208
10	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		206

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Principal–agent problem" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Principal–agent problem		212
2	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		110
3	French (fr) Problème principal-agent		46
4	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		44
5	Hebrew (he) בעיית הנציג		39
6	Polish (pl) Teoria agencji		29
7	Dutch (nl) Principaal-agenttheorie		24
8	Danish (da) Principal-agent-teorien		20
9	Spanish (es) Problema del agente-principal		19
10	Vietnamese (vi) Vấn đề ông chủ và người đại diện		18

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Principal–agent problem" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Problema de relació principal-agent		2
2	English (en) Principal–agent problem		2
3	Hebrew (he) בעיית הנציג		1
4	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Vấn đề ông chủ và người đại diện		1
6	Arabic (ar) مشكلة الموكل والوكيل		0
7	Danish (da) Principal-agent-teorien		0
8	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		0
9	Greek (el) Πρόβλημα εντολέα-εντολοδόχου		0
10	Spanish (es) Problema del agente-principal		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Principal–agent problem" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Principal–agent problem		202
2	German (de) Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie		119
3	Japanese (ja) プリンシパル＝エージェント理論		45
4	Spanish (es) Problema del agente-principal		28
5	French (fr) Problème principal-agent		28
6	Russian (ru) Теория принципала-агента		22
7	Hebrew (he) בעיית הנציג		18
8	Italian (it) Modello principale-agente		17
9	Korean (ko) 본인-대리인 문제		17
10	Portuguese (pt) Problema do principal-agente		15

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مشكلة الموكل والوكيل
ca	Catalan Problema de relació principal-agent
da	Danish Principal-agent-teorien
de	German Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie
el	Greek Πρόβλημα εντολέα-εντολοδόχου
en	English Principal–agent problem
es	Spanish Problema del agente-principal
et	Estonian Esindamisprobleem
fa	Persian مسئله کارفرما - کارگزار
fi	Finnish Päämies–agentti-ongelma
fr	French Problème principal-agent
he	Hebrew בעיית הנציג
id	Indonesian Masalah keagenan
it	Italian Modello principale-agente
ja	Japanese プリンシパル＝エージェント理論
ko	Korean 본인-대리인 문제
nl	Dutch Principaal-agenttheorie
no	Norwegian Prinsipal–agent-teori
pl	Polish Teoria agencji
pt	Portuguese Problema do principal-agente
ru	Russian Теория принципала-агента
sv	Swedish Agentproblemet
uk	Ukrainian Проблема «принципал—агент»
vi	Vietnamese Vấn đề ông chủ và người đại diện
zh	Chinese 代理問題

Best Rank

English: #22042 04.2015

Global: #10448 10.2013

Best Rank

English: #8124 04.2023

Global: #9968 07.2004

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